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I figure any rational nonhyperbolic discussion of the topic SHOULD rely on current "best estimates" with some error bars around it, not just random guesses about something based on nothing.  It does help to be somewhat informed about the topic of course.

The violent weather hype is mostly just that, there is relatively little sound evidence that weather today is any more violent than in the past.  That COULD change, but it hasn't as yet, at least not as much as the media portray.  (There is some evidence hurricanes are tending to move more slowly, but the ACE factor has been pretty level over decades.)  Every event from Canadian forest fires to California drought is blamed on climate change.  We of course experienced drastic drought in the 1930s.

The violent weather hype is mostly just that, there is relatively little sound evidence that weather today is any more violent than in the past.  That COULD change, but it hasn't as yet, at least not as much as the media portray.  (There is some evidence hurricanes are tending to move more slowly, but the ACE factor has been pretty level over decades.)  Every event from Canadian forest fires to California drought is blamed on climate change.  We of course experienced drastic drought in the 1930s.

Dude,

Violent weather has become the norm!

the IPCC best estimates seem like vague hyperbole to me.

There is some meat on their estimates, in my view, whether I agree or not.  The summary is decently specific.  But on sea level rise, they show the usual range by 2100 centered on about 2 feet, in 80 years.

Clean water is an economic problem, not a climate problem. Desalinization is a perfectly acceptable technical solution, but the question is whether it is economically practicable to do so.

Energy, which stands in for money.

There is some meat on their estimates, in my view, whether I agree or not.  The summary is decently specific.  But on sea level rise, they show the usual range by 2100 centered on about 2 feet, in 80 years.

I know the number 2 isn't big in isolation.
But a 2 foot sea level rise is MASSIVE.  

I know the number 2 isn't big in isolation.
But a 2 foot sea level rise is MASSIVE. 

Plenty of tides are more than 2 feet, some by a lot.